When The Wind Is Slow, And The Fire's Hot

When the wind is slow, and the fire's hot

The vulture waits to see what rots

Oh how pretty, all the scenery

This is nature's sacrifice

Finally, finally after forever, the next part of FTGFTF is done. Sorry if the pacing is a bit janky, I may go back and fix it up, but I hope you enjoy the long-awaited Atlas fight and I hope it delivers. Put a lot of work into the actual fight itself.

Shout out to @dumpsterfirepropaganda for keeping me going and hyping this one up, and to @copper-sands , who despite knowing nothing about MMZX, has still been cheering me on!

I like to see more Aile with skirt

Even tho she still looks tomboyish 😆

I draw her in exact ZX's Anniv what a coincidence lmao

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Somewhat related to the question regarding original work, have some chibis of a few of my deity characters :)

Ironically they're the ones from the big story that I've actually finished, and a few won't actually show up in it, but I like their designs!

Micani, First Son of the Reaper (Deity of Death)

Oras, Manager of Time (Deity of Time)

Tyron, Punisher Everlasting (Personification of Judgement)

Tamora, Binder of Fate (Deity of Fate)

Jivana, The Divine Mother (Deity of Creation and Life)

Sometimes I really wish I had more knowledge of music and notes and stuff like that. The reason being, I'm pretty sure that leitmotifs from the Zero series got recycled a few times in ZX, specifically the ZX Tunes version of songs, but can't quite confirm it other than saying "this sounds somewhat similar!"

Fate - Theme of Vile (Weil) from Zero and Fate - Deep Seated Grudge from ZX are the obvious ones in that the second loops so it doesn't become the first, and I also love that "Science Will Never Die" from DMC4 also pays homage to Weil's theme, given the boss it's used for is similarly a mad scientist.

However, the ones I'm trying to figure out are the soundtrack versions of Doomsday Device (Area M/N) and Cannonball - Hard Revenge. Pretty sure that Doomsday Device pulls from Ragnarok from Zero 4 in certain areas, but I feel like I'd need to slow down the song to be certain (or speed up Ragnarok!). Additionally, there's a whole extra melody to Doomsday Device in ZX Tunes; doesn't quite help that that version isn't on Spotify.

Funnily enough, it's the same issue with Hard Revenge. Obviously it's a slight remix to Omega's Zero 3's boss theme, but the OST version again has a whole extra melody section that sounds like it references songs from Zero 3; specifically Exiled One - Omega, Omega Battle, Apocalypse Now, and potentially even Return to Zero. But again, this is pure speculation on my part.

On a similar note, I'm kinda disappointed that Advent didn't reference ZX's Soundtrack very much, given that the Floating Ruins are implied to be in Area A, the Scrapyard is implied to be Area F, and the Control Centre has been confirmed by the developers to be what remains of Slither Inc. HQ. Granted, I haven't listened to the OST version of Brimstone from the Control Centre in a while. It also would have been fantastic had Advent reused Rockin' On from ZX as Vent and Aile's boss theme, and included some nods to Zero 4's Falling Down in Divine Hammer at the final boss fight to reference that Albert was continuing Weil's legacy.

Anyone else got any other examples?

(side note, the in-game version of Trap Phantasm from Advent is, in my opinion, nowhere NEAR as good as the OST version. That one has a sick guitar solo).

Aeolus this is stupid

(atlas sticks his head in the cake)

Aeolus-.....

Atlas not for me

You can really tell a lot about someone from which piece of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle media is their favourite and which turtle is their favourite from said media.